1148) Rachel Field

Rachel Lyman Field (1894 – 1942). American novelist, poet and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award–winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

- "... she had curly, red-gold hair, direct eyes and an irresistibly friendly smile."  https://books.google.it/books…